In the 1930s; with the rise of the Third Reich; thousands of European intellectuals sought refuge in the United States. Through the tireless efforts of Alvin Johnson; director of the New School for Social Research; nearly two hundred of these scholars came to be affiliated with the University in Exile; later known as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. This book presents an intellectual history of that remarkable group of social and political scientists; documenting their experiences and their influence on both European and American thought. Johnson was one of the first to recognize the need for action to prevent Hitler's destruction of the German intellectual tradition. He sought out many of the best European scholars of the day and brought them to the newly created University in Exile in New York. There; the refugees framed as intellectual problems the social and political experiences that had so disrupted their lives and careers. They examined the cultural roots of fascism; the bureaucratization of Western societies; and the prerequisites for a historically and morally informed social science. In the field of economics; the exiles developed theoretical concepts and models that came to be instrumental in the formation of New Deal policies and that remain relevant today.
#2188001 in Books Michigan State University Press 2008-03-31Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .90 x 6.00l; 1.14 #File Name: 0870138200192 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy Jerry L. EnglandWell done.6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. historical French documents of early Michigan settlementBy Henry BerrySixty-two documents translated from the French arranged chronologically give a picture of the fur-trading center at the point of the present-day state of Michigan's lower peninsula at the junction of the Great Lakes Huron and Michigan. The documents are a part of Mackinac State Historic Parks' French Michilimackinac Research Project Collection. Most have not been previously published. The few which have have been included for the sake of uniquely providing specifics on the colonial North America topic; and they have been newly translated to correct errors.Texts in the original French would have been a further step in recording the documentation and in scholarly usefulness and historical research for the volume. But this step left out is made up to a considerable degree by footnotes for each document and by two glossaries in the appendices; one for 17th and 18th century French legal terms and the other for untranslated French terms.In the time period of the collected documents; Michilimackinac was little more than an outpost of rough huts and mixed population. Yet as the documents indicate; it was a main commercial and trading center for the fur trade run mostly by the French which had a leading part in settlement of the American Midwest and western Canada. The documents illustrate not only relationships and operations of the fur trade; but also how conditions and activities in the New World changed traditional social roles. Women and in some cases Native Americans had legal recognition and rights not granted them elsewhere. Such recognition and rights were related to substantive roles in the fur trade. Upper-class Frenchmen entered into binding legal agreements with laborers and tradesmen.The dry; legalistic titles of the documents belies their informative; frequent colorful material. Documents titled such as Petition by Charles de Couagne against Marie Felix; Judicial Investigation against Loisel and Villedieu; Statement of court expenses; and Death and inventory of Jean Gay (or Laurent) dit Cascadet relate the history of early Michilimackinac.
